Win the Day Podcast

Have you let life get in the way of your dreams? What’s the one thing you wish to experience in this lifetime? What’s your ‘someday’? How can you create your ‘someday’ today?

We can’t know the sand that’s left in our hourglass. We don’t know what tomorrow holds or how the rest of our days will unfold. So let's allow joy, build in room for adventure, leave space for spontaneity. Don’t let your ‘someday’ never arrive. 

We can ‘someday’ our entire life away. Our busyness can keep us from the fullness of really living. We can delay promises to ourselves and those we care about and soon enough time has slipped and ‘someday’ never comes.

No more ‘somedays’. I’m here for today. Tune in now to hear what 'someday' I made happen today. 😍

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Have you ever felt like something was missing either within yourself or in your life-as if there's a void that you can't define and yet can't escape? You've been trying to find your purpose, and sometimes you even question whether you have one? Author Jill Allen has faced those questions and has discovered the way to show up as the woman she wants to be-the woman God designed and created her to be.

Anxiety and busyness can keep us from walking in our purpose, rooted in joy but it doesn't have to be that way. God offers us a different way to live.

Listen now to hear me talk with Jill as she reveals the steps she took along the journey that led her to God's unconditional love. You can take these exact steps to freedom and enjoy His peace too.

Jill is a mom of 5, wife to Rob of 19 years, personal trainer, author and host of the Find Your Fierce Podcast.

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Purchase Jill's book, 'Set Free' here.

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Have you lost yourself, or even your joy, after a hard season? It's so easy for this to happen, and even part of the process of becoming a new creation. When you lose yourself after something hard, how can you rediscover who you've now become? 

Hard things change you. We gain a new perspective and new parts of us. Old parts die, new parts come to life. How do we let go of 'before me' while making space for 'after me'? How do you celebrate 'after me' without guilt and shame of what brought you to this space?

Self discovery after hard things in so no easy process. Listen now to hear about how I learned who 'after me' was and how I let go of what no longer served me so I could step into the fullness of who I am today.

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SHOW NOTES: https://winthedaypro.com/before-me-vs-after-me/

Has your life ever taken an unexpected turn? If so, how did you handle the gap of where you thought you'd be and where you actually found yourself? Were you able to still find joy? How do you rest in that unknown space? 

6 years ago Jenny and her husband Brandon found themselves pregnant with their second child but this pregnancy felt different. Even though the world said otherwise, mother's intuition kicked in as God spoke to her about this baby's life. Even though they never saw their story unfold the way they did they knew it was exactly where God was bringing them all along.

Tune in now to hear Jenny's confessions of a special needs mama.

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You can purchase your copy of Brandon’s book, Special Strength: Lessons from Livia here.

What do you say to yourself on hard days to shift your persepective? Do you have a mantra, a battle cry, you use for a pep talk?

I do. And I've shared it with many friends going through hard times: a cancer diagnosis, grief, loss, becoming a young widow, waiting for a baby, to be a mom, sick kids and divorce. And now I'm  going to share it with you...

It won't always feel like this.

Listen now to hear Becky talk about how this mantra carried her through her hardest days by acknowledging her hurt, releasing the pain and looking forward to what's coming next.

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What do I really want out of life? What are the things that are most important to me? What have I not done that I’ve always wanted to do?

Postpartum, mom guilt, a cancer diagnosis and working as a therapist all in the middle of a global pandemic.

Kelly Sisson, mom, therapist, podcast host of 'Kelly and the Encouragers' and eternal optimist, is opening up about her journey through hard things and how it's shaped her perspective. Hard things change you. They just do. But it even still, we can find ourselves after hard things.

Listen now to hear Kelly share her story which includes receiving a cancer diagnosis at a young age. We also talk about how to to wait well when things are out of out control, helping others in need, a mental health pandemic, having hard conversations and how to look for joy again.

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Michael and Tasha have felt called to adopt for 5 years but the expectations of their calling have played out much differently than they could have ever known. Busted plans, broken hearts, failed connections, emotional wounds and even giving back a baby that was laid in their arms and brought into their home.

But even still they have hoped for more. That their story isn't over. And in the waiting and in the grey space God continues to shape and mold their hearts to be more like his.

We can fall into a perception that sadness is weak and emotions aren't safe. We have these stories in our head that need to be undone. We have to let go of our unnecessary 'emotional rules’.

Michael and Tasha remind us through their story that no matter the outcome, known or not, it's not a mistake to love. Even when love ends in a broken heart it's not a mistake to love because God uses experiences like this to expand our heart.

Tune in now to hear how Michael and Tasha share can surrender our exceptions and hold on to hope even in the dark.

**Michael and Tasha are still pursuing and holding on to hope of adoption for their family. Do you know a birth mother that is looking to adoption for her child? If so, please email me at [email protected] so we can connect.**

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Do you feel like God has been quiet in your life? Does there seem to be no answers to the questions you've been asking God? Do you feel like you are talking it and walking it out but still....nothing? Is quiet needed? Are we being punished? 

I had felt God's quiet for a while. Not just weeks or months but the better part of two years...until recently.

Listen now to hear how God has started moving in my life again, how my perspective on my quiet season is shifting and my three big take aways from my years of quiet: don’t let doubt grow in delay, you can’t miss what is meant for you and stay focused on the creator not the creation.

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What happens when we try to deny and outrun our emotions? What happens when we are too busy doing and too distracted to be feeling? Symptoms like brain fog, fatigue, loss of ambition, bloating, trouble sleeping, digestive issues start to feel like our new normal but that's now how we were meant to live!

I've been on a long journey the last few years and part of that journey most recently has been slowing down and befriending my body and giving it what it needs.

Enter Lisa Littel from Isthmus Wellness who has helped me slow down, be still and help me listen to when by body is speaking. Lisa has helped me understand the incredible mind and body connection and the toll unchecked stress can have on our body.

Listen now to hear Lisa and I as we walk through my journey of grief, guilt, permission to let go and lean in. 

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Have you ever had something happen to you that you can look at and say..."well that sucked!"? 

I know I have and I can't be the only one. It's human nature to look for reasons and answers to questions that we may never know this side of Heaven. Growth, joy, grit, character, grace, empty are all available to us in the suck. The suck grows us, it builds us. But before we can step into the fullness of those offerings, we must first embrace the suck.

Join Becky as she talks about three lessons hard things has taught her: you can't out run the suck, there is power in the pause and the suck is a detour, not a dead end.

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